Stratolaunch’s very large airplane has a very short name: Roc, after the mythological giant bird of prey. At least, that’s its name for now.
During a rare media tour of the company’s giant hangar at the Mo...

Scotland has become an important hub of small satellite activity and space research. While it’s hard to say how that work will suffer in the wake of Brexit, the uncertainty is likely to take a toll.
“Uncertain...

The U.S. and China — two of the world’s most powerful spacefaring nations — aren’t likely to combine their efforts anytime soon. Despite some small steps in the right direction — with last year’s bilateral talk...

Jennifer Manner is EchoStar’s senior vice president of regulatory affairs and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
In the days since the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the Eu...

The commercial space sector needs India. India needs the commercial space sector. Depending on where you travel, one of these two sentences may not be clear.
The commercial space industry needs India’s PSLV ro...

Space startup companies have to overcome a daunting array of obstacles. There are the technical challenges inherent in any space project. Startups also have to raise many millions of dollars from investors. The...

At the Washington Space Business Roundtable lunch in February, Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, said he hoped to decide by year’s end the future of one of the U.S. Air Force’s most expensive s...

The deputy under secretary of the Air Force for space, explained how his office will help run the wideband AoA during a June 28 speech at the MilSatCom conference in Arlington, Virginia.
“We know we’re not g...

Heather LaychakHEATHER LAYCHAK is joining THE AEROSPACE CORP. as chief human resources officer. She spent 11 years in HR at Northrop Grumman, including a stint with its space systems division, before leadi...